Not giving a fuck if people call you racist is a thing you do only if you are racist.AndreiChekov wrote:DERP DERP DERP DERP DERP DERP I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT I CAN'T EVEN DO THE BASIC AMOUNT OF EFFORT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT MY OPPONENTS CRITICISMS ARE DERP DERP DERP DERP DERP DERP
Hating filthy brown people from other countries because of their "religion" and their "criminality" is totally a great story to tell about how you aren't racist, but it doesn't comport with reality, where Trump knows that brown people born in Indiana are filthy brown people illegals in SPIRIT and so still evil, or how filthy brown people that vote against him are illegals, or how filthy brown people at his rallies are paid protesters (oh wait black people aren't Muslim or illegal immigrants I mean.... uh.... they illegally immigrated from KENYA).
The idea that no one can see past the transparently thin dog whistles of a man who says that Mexican immigrants are rapists, Muslims are all terrorists, and African Americans are all inner city thugs, because he's giving transparently flimsy justifications for his hatred that are sometimes explicit dog whistles invented by racists, while he gets his news from fucking Stormfront is pathetic.
If you have a factually incorrect reason for hating every brown person you see, and you invent new ones whenever you see new brown people, and you use brownness as a proxy for figuring out if someone falls into the "subsets" that you hate, and then you randomly run anti-semitic ads a couple days before the election, at some point people get to acknowledge that you are probably lying about your transparently paper thin dog whistle reasons for hating each brown person, and get to file it under "Trump hates people based on race."
Modern economics has correctly predicted that every dumb mistake made by every dumb republican wouldn't work in advance, and then correctly predicted moderate improvement under democrats who don't fuck things up further, but can't actually improve things because republicans continue to fuck things up.AndreiChekov wrote:Modern economies are an idea that has failed us. I'm up for trying something that worked before. I mean, it worked when jefferson did it.
But sure, I'm sure this will be the one true time that doing something actual experts tell you is dumb and a stupid republicans tell you is awesome will totally work out.